Product Description: The essays included in this volume are based on papers delivered at the International Symposium on Varieties of Marxism, held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation on June 16-19,1974, and dedicated to the memory of George Lichtheim...read more

Product Description: The essays included in this volume are based on papers delivered at the International Symposium on Varieties of Marxism, held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation on June 16-19,1974, and dedicated to the memory of George Lichtheim...read more

Product Description: The Holy History of Mankind was published in 1837, the first book-length socialist tract to appear in Germany, representing an unusual synthesis of Judaism and Christianity. (Moses Hess was a major figure in the development of both early communist and Zionist thought...read more

Product Description: The study of democratization and constitutional development in post-communist societies raises issues which go beyond specific institutional arrangements initiated in post-communist societies to probe some of the fundamental themes in religion and politics...read more

Product Description: In the last decade much contemporary political and moral thought has been devoted to the debate between communitarianism and individualism. While individualists advocate the notions of rights, neutrality and impartiality, and see society as a voluntary association for mutual advantage, communitarians argue that individuals are never detached from their society, culture and history and that if they are to be properly understood they must first be examined in these contexts...read more

Traces the life of the Zionist leader who became the 'foreign minister' of the future Jewish state, and shows the effect of his socialist ideals and his assassination in 1933 on the development of Israel

An eminent political philosopher traces the evolution of the Zionist idea from the origins of this active political philosophy in the revolutionary attitudes of the nineteenth century to the modern period

This study in English of Hegel's political philosophy presents an overall view of the development of Hegel's political thinking. The author has drawn on Hegel's philosophical works, his political tracts and his personal correspondence. Professor Avineri shows that although Hegel is primarily thought of as a philosopher of the state, he was much concerned with social problems and his concept of the state must be understood in this context. (view table of contents)

A critical analysis of the entire scope of Marx's life and works, separating his philosophy from its distortions through history (view table of contents)